Cycling is about "Safe exercise" and "Safe low-emission travel" The Health and Fitness objective is UNDERMINED if the means of exercise is UNSAFE! This blog STRONGLY OPPOSES certain reforms VicRoads is currently considering: “cyclists could be allowed to treat red lights as Give Way signs. And the same could also APPLY at pedestrian lights."
Also "PERMITTING cyclists, riding cautiously, to proceed past a stationary tram;" "allowing teenagers to ride on footpaths"(Herald Sun)PDowe

Monday, December 8, 2014

It only takes a moment for a Pram to get awayMetro spokeswoman Larisa Tait said the incident should REMIND everyone on train platforms to be vigilant around children and to keep a hold of their hands.

“We can’t stress enough how IMPORTANT it is to make sure the (Pram) brake is on and to never look away.

It also shows how important it is to strap children in.” Herald Sun

"Witnesses told...3AW that the brakes on the Toddler's Pram failed" The AgeComment by Pete Dowe

Offhand I do not know whether there are Australian Design Rules standards for Pram Brakes? There ought to be,just as there are ADR standards for Bicycle Helmets, both can save lives.Re CCTV, many have dismissed CCTV as Big Brother, or useless after the event,yet it has provided evidence to a near tragedy and made us all witnesses to the hazards for Toddlers on Railway Station platforms.Pete DoweRoad Safety Advocate

Sickening footage has emerged of the moment a pram carrying a toddler rolled off a platform and onto train tracks in suburban Melbourne.

The scenes , taken from a security camera at Diamond Creek station on Wednesday morning, shows the pram slowly rolling off the platform and the 18-month-old girl strapped inside falling face-first onto the tracks below.

The child's grandfather, distracted as he tended to his other grandchild, realises what has unfolded and jumps off the platform and onto the tracks.

The toddler fell onto the tracks at Diamond Creek train station about 11am. Photo: Fairfax Radio 3AW

He picks up the pram and other bystanders run up the track to help.

One bystander picks up the toddler and places her on the platform while others crowd around the baby to assess her injuries.

A witness, known only as Phillip, told radio station 3AW the girl suffered a significant head injury around her eye-socket and was bleeding from her nose after hitting a steel rail.

The toddler was taken by ambulance to the Royal Children's Hospital where she was in a stable condition on Thursday afternoon.